Development Indicator Population: 2,039,000 GNI PPP Per Capita (US$): $15,500 Women as % a Non Farm wage Earners: 43% Women as % of Parliament: 8% CO2 Emissions per capita (metric tons): 1,470,000 Death due to Non- communicable Diseases: 31% Births attended by skill health personnel (%): 94% Gender Inequality Index Rating: 0.486 Economy: Big Mac Index: N/A Economy: Cash Surplus/ Deficit (%of GDP): Economy: Human Development index: 0.565 Education: Average years of school for Adults: 6.3 Education: Education Spending (as % of GDP): 9.49% Education: Pupil- Teacher Ratio (elementary): 25.42 Education: Primary education teacher per 1000: 6.67 Health: Expenditure Per Capita: 6.4% Health hospital Beds per 1000: 1.58 per 1000 people Health: Physicians per 1000: 0.4 per 1000 people Media: Televisions (total number): 31,000 Media: Per Capita Television: 0.015
Industrialization Indicator: % of GDP from agriculture: 1.9% % of GDP from Agriculture: 35.7% % of GDP from services: 62.4% Total labor force: 1.308 million % of labor force in agriculture: N/A % of Labor force in industry: N/A Unemployment Rate: 17.8% Public Debt % of GDP: 17.9% Industries: Diamonds, copper, nickel, salt, soda ash, potash, coal, iron ore, silver; livestock processing; textiles Export commodities: diamonds, copper, nickel, soda ash, meat, textiles Export Partners and %: N/A Values of Imports: $7.389 billion Import Commodities: Foodstuffs, machinery, electrical goods, transport equipment, textiles, fuel and petroleum products, wood and paper products, metal and metal products Import partners and %: N/A Currency Exchange Rate to $1.00: 8.732 Electricity Production: 429.6 million kWh Electricity Consumption: 3.118 billion kWh Electricity from fossil fuel: 100% of total installed capacity Electricity From nuclear fuel: 0% of total installed capacity Electricity from hydroelectric plants: 0% of total installed capacity Electricity from renewable sources: 0% of total installed capacity Refined oil production: 0 bbl/day Refined oil consumption: 15,420 bbl/day Natural gas production: 0 cu m Natural gas consumption: 0 cu m # of land/ main line telephones: 160,500 # of cellular/mobile telephones: 3.082 million # of internet hosts: 1,806 # of internet users: 120,000 # of airports (total): 74 # of airports with paved runways: 10 # of km of roadways (total): 17,916 km # of km of roadways paved: 6,116 km # km of waterways: 0 km Location of main ports and terminals: N/A
Summary Botswana is not as developed as the United States, but we are slowly moving up in our development. The first thing that is contributing to their level of development is their access to knowledge. They have almost the same amount of students per teacher as the United States has. Also they have an improving health care system, such as an increase in physician, the amount of hospital beds and the percentage of births attended by health personnel. Their GDP has been estimated to have grown about 5.4% in the last few years. They have improved service-oriented sectors, notably trade, transport and communication, public and financial services in order to increase their development level.
Comparison United States is far more developed than Botswana. For starters the United States has a far better health care system, we have doctors for about everything. While Botswana doesn’t even have a physician for every person. They also lack the proper facilities for their health place. One health thing that is almost similar is the births attended by skilled health care physicians. Both countries have TVs, telephones and internet access. But, since the United States is more developed they have a larger amount of people who have them. Lastly, Botswana has a fairly large number of airports and roadways, but, the United States still has way more developed airports and roadways. Botswana has many of the things that the United States has, they just aren’t as developed and wide spread.